Nair's column was taken seriously by writers even when many of them smarted under his merciless attack.
For which their backs have smarted!
Here is an opportunity for a small concession being made by way of meting out justice to some who have already smarted and suffered as the result of injustice.
A man who could bear the blows of his enemies with equanimity must have smarted under such lashes from his countrymen.
His wounds were very quick; they smarted, but you recovered from them quickly.
